This article examines how major upheavals at News International in the 1980s influenced the relationship between technological innovation and workplace reorganization at the Financial Times. Using a historical institutional theoretical framework, the article combines interviews with members of the Financial Times and documentary research to develop a case study of the influence of workplace reorganization at one media corporation on processes of reorganization at another. What emerges from the case study of the Financial Times (and News International) is the need to analyse the relationship between technological innovation and workplace reorganization by examining an organization's internal culture; its institutional context, including other organizations in the same industry; and the interaction between its actors' worldviews, choices of action and institutional context.
Timothy Marjoribanks (Fri,) studied this question.